Technical Notes
Articles and notes on remote sensing, 3D point clouds, and data analysis.
Field Data Collection, Baby Shower, Elks BBQ - How I used Gemini to navigate an insanely busy week
How I used Gemini as a practical sounding board to manage time, delegate tasks, triage commercial kitchen equipment, cook scratch red beans & rice, and pull off an insanely busy multi-track week.
Taming Spacecraft Jitter: How UNJITR Rescues Blurry Space Telescopes
How sub-pixel Fourier phase correlation reconstructs spacecraft attitude drift and turns 400-pixel smudges into sharp stars.
Do Trees Have Senses? (Yes, and It's Way Cooler Than Ents)
How trees measure mechanical strain, sense competing neighbors, and literally click under drought.
Killing the Dead-Zone Fastball: Notes on the Red Sox Pitching Transformation
How Andrew Bailey overhauled the Boston pitching staff by ditching generic four-seamers for horizontal chaos.
Fitting Cylinders to Leaning Trees in Real Time on a Robot
How CUTMAP measures tree diameters and lean angles in dense forest brush using geometry-constrained RANSAC on embedded edge hardware.
How I Actually Use AI in Daily Scientific Research (Without the Hype)
A candid look at where LLMs and vision models save hours of engineering time, and where they completely fail.
Building Dirty Water: Automated Statcast Queries & Bullpen Fatigue
Why traditional box scores lie about bullpen freshness, and how an automated morning pipeline tracks Fenway matchups.
Why In-Flight Camera Sharpness Isn't What You Measured in the Lab
How slanted-edge ground targets let airborne hyperspectral payloads verify optical resolution at 140 knots.
Why Is Everything on Fire? A Quick Forestry Explainer
Why modern wildfires are burning hotter and bigger, explained without the textbook jargon.
The Swiss Cheese Problem: Building Pit-Free Canopy Height Models
Why high-density forest LiDAR turns conifer crowns into sponges, and the multi-scale TIN trick that fixes it.
Vacating Reality: The Absurdity of NCAA Retroactive Forfeits
Why administrative memos cannot erase Saturday nights in Death Valley, and the mathematical comedy of one-sided losses.